What the ABC report does is it takes an example of a 10 year old girl sucessfully hiding in a closet with her brothers and sets that as
the best thing to do according to "security experts"
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apparantly we can all learn alot from that 10 year old girl.
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Three children in a very bad situation. That's about all they can do. Probably the best advice to give children.
But this is a morning news program - it's not a kids program. They're taking a situation that happened to a 10 year old and subtly spinning it as advice to all adults.
Would I advocate that children hide in a closet or cubby hole? Yes.
Is that what a father or a mother or generally what the adult population should do.
No - I think it's bad tactics.
I'm not advocating clearing a house, I do believe in taking up a defensive position. Again - I say it depends on the situation and the layout of the house. If you can get your loved ones all gathered together in a safe room, lock the door and wait - that's great. It's predicated on being alarmed to the break-in and having time to marshall everyone together.
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Are you recommending against locking the door or against dialing 911, or both?
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My defensive position based on the layout of my home is the hallway leading to my bedroom and my kid's bedroom.
My kid's room has 2 doors, one to the hallway and one to the bathroom. If I let intruders get through that choke point - assuming they continue the attack after shots are fired, I now have 2 entrances to gaurd and I've given concealment to the assailants.
So my defensive point is not behind a locked door - I have to have visibility into that hallway.
As far as dialling 911, I'm not against it, but the cell phone is not a "valuable weapon to protect those around you" as Diane Sawyer erroneously stated in her rather slanted piece on guns. I recognize the importance of a phone but I don't plan to delay arming myself while I talk on it. I'm armed first, in position second, (if the situation allows) and then dialling 911 third (again - if the situation allows).